Frank Van Damme a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I am currently trying out Unattended. Depending on which PC I try it
> on, it works nice...
>
> My biggest problem up to now has been pre-installing drivers. We have
> very diverse hardware, and the first system I tried it on (an Asus
> Pundit PH3, Intel-based) has an elaborate directory structure for the
> device drivers (totalling 92 directories and subdirectories).
> Apparently it is necessary to add all these directories to the
> OemPnPDriverPath (why can't windows setup just copy it all to hard
> disk, and then seek the correct .inf file in that tree?). I ended up
> with a totally-unconfigured system with no support for the usb
> controller, video chip, ethernet,...
>
> I also tried generating the OemPnPDriversPath by adding all these
> subdirs in a string and putting that in unattend.txt (just so
> Unattended would skip asking which driver folders to add). Didn't seem
> like a very good idea, the path became pages long and
> Unattended/Windows Setup mangles the entire directory structure
> anyway. I would prefer not having to wory about the correct hardware
> drivers and to just let Windows Setup figure out what drivers to
> install.
>
>
i don't know if i understand your problem
but in case of limited string length from OemPnPDriversPath I suggest
you to use
the 2nd method proposed by the DPS_base installation program from DriverPack
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
this method known as Pyron's method can solve this length problem
All the driver are put in 7z format in a C:\OEM directory
Then this method create a presetup before the Windows setup
This presetup launch a programm DevPath.exe which scan the OEM directory
searching for ".inf" driver files, and modify the
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ DevicePath
register
this method works great and you can have as many drivers as you want
without problem
with the unattended sourceforge project there is just a hack to do in
order to make this method functionnal
1. you have to copy the OEM Directory containing the drivers, into your
I386 Directory
2. then at install time you MUST copy backward the I386\OEM directory to C:
i make this copy in the UNATTEND.TXT file here:
doit_cmds = "Z:;cd Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386;xcopy OEM c:\OEM /Y /E /I;
winnt /rx:
lang /s:Z:\os\winxpsp2\i386 /u:C:\netinst\unattend.txt"
hope it can help
> Currently I'm having another test system on my desk which is between
> its 15th and 16th reboot for installing updates, or so it seems :-)
> I'd like to draw your attention to C't offline update: a small GPL
> program written by the dutch computer magazine C't. It produces update
> cdroms for chosen windows versions and languages of Windows; the
> updates are installed with MS's update agent, it's got its own system
> for automatic reboot and recall and support for service pack releases.
> Maybe it's worth considering to integrate this in Unattended?
>
> Some download links in the scripts are dead. This probably because my
> scripts are outdated - I tried updating them but always got a "no
> route to host" error to the sourceforge cvs. Pretty annoying. I'll go
> on without pe windows messenger for now.
>
> Then, on the Pundit (after I'd thrown some cruft out of the drivers
> directory, and removed the OemPnPDriversPath from unattend.txt), about
> half of the drivers got installed - just not the usb ones and the
> network. For some reason I just couldn't get the thing to work
> afterwards too. Weird. I'll try Xp instead of 2000 and let know how it
> went.
>
> Also: the system currently installing is a win2k. I have an
> unattend.csv which worked nice for the pundit and the windows Xp key,
> but for this system Unattended still asks me for a product key. Which
> is weird since the product key is in the database. Or is the key not
> "Windows 2000 Professional ProductKey"?
>
> Another thing I'm a bit (...) concerned about is security. The default
> settings are guest:guest, so everyone can read unattended.txt and the
> admin passwords therein. Would it be possibly/easy to remaster the
> boot disk with some real user and real password?
>
>
>
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